Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book by Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, What We Must Know About Communism (Norton; $3.95). Once or twice he phoned the office for a check on things. In the State Department one day, while Dillon was presiding over a morning conference, a secretary sent in a United Press International dispatch...
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...
...Paul Dispatch and the A.P. still hoped the story was legitimate, but they found it hard to answer the Portland Oregonian's Assistant Managing Editor Edward M. Miller, who had exposed the same old yarn as a fraud in 1935. He wired A.P.: THAT GAL MUST BE GETTING
When at year's end the Batista regime suddenly collapsed, few were prepared for the event. The A.P. in Havana moved a Dec. 31 dispatch-based on but not credited to a Batista bulletin-to the effect that Castro's rebels were on the run. While this story was rolling off U.S. presses, Batista fled Cuba...
...sudden news vacuum, the press moved troops. Daily airborne platoons of newsmen landed at Havana's Rancho Boyeros, and the A.P. snapped to military attention: "The Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana jig ("My third dancing partner casually unstrapped...